Eastern and southern African regional blocs have appointed former leaders from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria to spearhead the peace process for the Democratic Republic of Congo where fighting has ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been facing severe unrest, especially in the eastern region, due to the ongoing ...

The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in most cases, and "that’s what’s really worrying,” ...

An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in northwestern Congo. That's according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organization on Monday.

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.

SADC and EAC appoint former Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta, Olusegun Obasanjo and Hailemariam Boshe as facilitators of merged ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

FARGO — Although the days are beginning to get noticeably longer, the winter is the same. In fact, the forecast for the coming week is fairly brutal. However, across the Gulf Coast region of the ...

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has said. Vivian van de Perre, a senior UN official based in the city of Goma, said the ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of women inmates in Munzenze prison of Congo's Goma ...